Words whose second letter is V

Avadavat (n.) Same as Amadavat.

Availed (imp. & p. p.) of Avail

Availing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avail

Avail (v. t.) To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.

Avail (v. t.) To promote; to assist.

Avail (v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease.

Avail (n.) Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.

Avail (v. t. & i.) See Avale, v.

Availabilities (pl. ) of Availability

Availability (n.) The quality of being available; availableness.

Availability (n.) That which is available.

Available (a.) Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea.

Available (a.) Such as one may avail one's self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate.

Avenious (a.) Being without veins or nerves, as the leaves of certain plants.

Avenor (n.) See Avener.

Aventail (n.) The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

Aventine (a.) Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood.

Aventine (n.) A post of security or defense.

Aventre (v. t.) To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.

Aventure (n.) Accident; chance; adventure.

Aventure (n.) A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.

Aventurine (n.) A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.

Aventurine (n.) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.

Avenue (n.) A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit.

Avenue (n.) The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.

Avenue (n.) A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.

Aver (n.) A work horse, or working ox.

Averred (imp. & p. p.) of Aver

Averring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aver

Aver (v. t.) To assert, or prove, the truth of.

Aver (v. t.) To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment.

Aver (v. t.) To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth.

Average (n.) That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

Average (n.) A tariff or duty on goods, etc.

Average (n.) Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.

Average (n.) A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.

Average (n.) The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.

Average (n.) A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10.

Average (n.) Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.

Average (n.) In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.

Average (a.) Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp.

Average (a.) According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.

Averaged (imp. & p. p.) of Average

Averaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Average

Average (v. t.) To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.

Average (v. t.) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.

Average (v. t.) To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.

Average (v. i.) To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length.

Avercorn (n.) A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers.

Averment (v. t.) The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion.

Averment (v. t.) Verification; establishment by evidence.

Averment (v. t.) A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.

Avernal (a.) Alt. of Avernian

Avernian (a.) Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

Averpenny (n.) Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.

Averroism (n.) The tenets of the Averroists.

Averroist (n.) One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.

Averruncate (v. t.) To avert; to ward off.

Averruncate (v. t.) To root up.

Averruncation (n.) The act of averting.

Averruncation (n.) Eradication.

Averruncator (n.) An instrument for pruning trees, consisting of two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on the end of a long rod.

Aversation (n.) A turning from with dislike; aversion.

Averse (a.) Turned away or backward.

Averse (a.) Having a repugnance or opposition of mind; disliking; disinclined; unwilling; reluctant.

Aviculture (n.) Rearing and care of birds.

Avid (a.) Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy.

Avidious (a.) Avid.

Avidiously (adv.) Eagerly; greedily.

Avie (adv.) Emulously.

Avifauna (n.) The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.

Avigato (n.) See Avocado.

Avignon berry () The fruit of the Rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry.

Avile (v. t.) To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.

Avis (n.) Advice; opinion; deliberation.

Avise (v. t.) To look at; to view; to think of.

Avise (v. t.) To advise; to counsel.

Avise (v. i.) To consider; to reflect.

Aviseful (a.) Watchful; circumspect.

Avisely (adv.) Advisedly.

Avisement (n.) Advisement; observation; deliberation.

Avision (n.) Vision.

Aviso (n.) Information; advice.

Aviso (n.) An advice boat, or dispatch boat.

Avocado (n.) The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter.

Avocat (n.) An advocate.

Avocate (a.) To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.

Avocation (n.) A calling away; a diversion.

Avocation (n.) That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.

Avocative (a.) Calling off.

Avocative (n.) That which calls aside; a dissuasive.

Avocet (n.) Alt. of Avoset

Avoset (n.) A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is R. Americana.

Avoided (imp. & p. p.) of Avoid

Avoiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avoid

Avoid (a.) To empty.

Avoid (a.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.

Avoid (a.) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.

Avoid (a.) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.

Avoid (a.) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.

Avoid (a.) To get rid of.

Avoid (a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.

Avoid (v. i.) To retire; to withdraw.

Avoid (v. i.) To become void or vacant.

Avoidable (a.) Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.

Avoidable (a.) Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.

Avoidance (n.) The act of annulling; annulment.

Avoidance (n.) The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.

Avoidance (n.) A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.

Avoidance (n.) The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.

Avoidance (n.) The courts by which anything is carried off.

Avoider (n.) The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away.

Avoider (n.) One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.

Avoidless (a.) Unavoidable; inevitable.

Avoirdupois (n.) Goods sold by weight.

Avoirdupois (n.) Avoirdupois weight.

Avoirdupois (n.) Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois.

Avoke (v. t.) To call from or back again.

Avolate (v. i.) To fly away; to escape; to exhale.

Avolation (n.) The act of flying; flight; evaporation.

Avoset (n.) Same as Avocet.

Avouched (imp. & p. p.) of Avouch

Avouching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avouch

Avouch (v. t.) To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.

Avouch (v. t.) To maintain a just or true; to vouch for.

Avouch (v. t.) To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.

Avouch (v. t.) To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.

Avouch (n.) Evidence; declaration.

Avouchable (a.) Capable of being avouched.

Avoucher (n.) One who avouches.

Avouchment (n.) The act of avouching; positive declaration.

Avoutrer (n.) See Advoutrer.

Avoutrie (n.) Adultery.

Avowed (imp. & p. p.) of Avow

Avowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avow

Avow (v. t.) To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.

Avow (v. t.) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry.

Avow (n.) Avowal.

Avow (n.) To bind, or to devote, by a vow.

Avow (n.) A vow or determination.

Avowable (a.) Capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with confidence.

Avowal (n.) An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles.

Avowance (n.) Act of avowing; avowal.

Avowance (n.) Upholding; defense; vindication.

Avowant (n.) The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking.

Avowed (a.) Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted.

Avowee (n.) The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson.

Avower (n.) One who avows or asserts.

Avowry (n.) An advocate; a patron; a patron saint.

Avowry (n.) The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right.

Avowtry (v. t.) Adultery. See Advoutry.

Avoyer (n.) A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland.

Avulse (v. t.) To pluck or pull off.

Avulsion (n.) A tearing asunder; a forcible separation.

Avulsion (n.) A fragment torn off.

Avulsion (n.) The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner.

Avuncular (a.) Of or pertaining to an uncle.

D valve () A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide.

Dvergar (pl. ) of Dvergr

Dvergr (n.) A dwarf supposed to dwell in rocks and hills and to be skillful in working metals.

Evacate (v. t.) To empty.

Evacuant (a.) Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic.

Evacuant (n.) A purgative or cathartic.

Evacuated (imp. & p. p.) of Evacuate

Evacuating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evacuate

Evacuate (v. t.) To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.

Evacuate (v. t.) Fig.: To make empty; to deprive.

Evacuate (v. t.) To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.

Evacuate (v. t.) To withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.

Evacuate (v. t.) To make void; to nullify; to vacate; as, to evacuate a contract or marriage.

Evacuate (v. i.) To let blood

Evacuation (n.) The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging.

Evacuation (n.) Withdrawal of troops from a town, fortress, etc.

Evacuation (n.) Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.

Evacuation (n.) That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means.

Evacuation (n.) Abolition; nullification.

Evacuative (a.) Serving of tending to evacuate; cathartic; purgative.

Evacuator (n.) One who evacuates; a nullifier.

Evacuatory (n.) A purgative.

Evaded (imp. & p. p.) of Evade

Evading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evade

Evade (v. t.) To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument.

Evade (v. t.) To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.

Evade (v. t.) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

Evadible (a.) Capable of being evaded.

Evagation (n.) A wandering about; excursion; a roving.

Evagination (n.) The act of unsheathing.

Eval (a.) Relating to time or duration.

Evaluate (v. t.) To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

Evaluation (n.) Valuation; appraisement.

Evanesced (imp. & p. p.) of Evanesce

Evanescing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evanesce

Evanesce (v. i.) To vanish away; to become dissipated and disappear, like vapor.

Evanescence (n.) The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes.

Evangel (n.) Good news; announcement of glad tidings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel.

Evangelian (a.) Rendering thanks for favors.

Evangelical (a.) Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history.

Evangelical (a.) Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion.

Evangelical (a.) Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; preeminetly orthodox; -- technically applied to that party in the Church of England, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which holds the doctrine of "Justification by Faith alone"; the Low Church party. The term is also applied to other religion bodies not regarded as orthodox.

Evangelical (n.) One of evangelical principles.

Evangelicalism (n.) Adherence to evangelical doctrines; evangelism.

Evangelically (adv.) In an evangelical manner.

Evangelicalness (n.) State of being evangelical.

Evangelicism (n.) Evangelical principles; evangelism.

Evangelicity (n.) Evangelicism.

Evangelism (n.) The preaching or promulgation of the gospel.

Evangelist (n.) A bringer of the glad tidings of Church and his doctrines. Specially: (a) A missionary preacher sent forth to prepare the way for a resident pastor; an itinerant missionary preacher. (b) A writer of one of the four Gospels (With the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. (c) A traveling preacher whose efforts are chiefly directed to arouse to immediate repentance.

Evangelistary (n.) A selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service.

Evangelistic (a.) Pertaining to the four evangelists; designed or fitted to evangelize; evangelical; as, evangelistic efforts.

Evangelization (n.) The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized.

Evangelized (imp. & p. p.) of Evangelize

Evangelizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evangelize

Evangelize (v. t.) To instruct in the gospel; to preach the gospel to; to convert to Christianity; as, to evangelize the world.

Evasion (n.) The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.

Eve (n.) Evening.

Eve (n.) The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event.

Evectics (n.) The branch of medical science which teaches the method of acquiring a good habit of body.

Evection () The act of carrying up or away; exaltation.

Evection () An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1! 20'.

Evection () The libration of the moon.

Even (n.) Evening. See Eve, n. 1.

Even (a.) Level, smooth, or equal in surface; not rough; free from irregularities; hence uniform in rate of motion of action; as, even ground; an even speed; an even course of conduct.

Even (a.) Equable; not easily ruffed or disturbed; calm; uniformly self-possessed; as, an even temper.

Even (a.) Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.

Even (a.) Balanced; adjusted; fair; equitable; impartial; just to both side; owing nothing on either side; -- said of accounts, bargains, or persons indebted; as, our accounts are even; an even bargain.

Even (a.) Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.

Even (a.) Associate; fellow; of the same condition.

Even (a.) Not odd; capable of division by two without a remainder; -- said of numbers; as, 4 and 10 are even numbers.

Evened (imp. & p. p.) of Even

Evening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Even

Even (v. t.) To make even or level; to level; to lay smooth.

Even (v. t.) To equal

Even (v. t.) To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits.

Even (v. t.) To set right; to complete.

Even (v. t.) To act up to; to keep pace with.

Even (v. i.) To be equal.

Even (a.) In an equal or precisely similar manner; equally; precisely; just; likewise; as well.

Even (a.) Up to, or down to, an unusual measure or level; so much as; fully; quite.

Even (a.) As might not be expected; -- serving to introduce what is unexpected or less expected.

Even (a.) At the very time; in the very case.

Evene (v. i.) To happen.

Evener (n.) One who, or that which makes even.

Evener (n.) In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.

Evenfall (n.) Beginning of evening.

Evenhand (n.) Equality.

Evenhanded (a.) Fair or impartial; unbiased.

Evening (n.) The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum.

Evening (n.) The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.

Evenminded (a.) Having equanimity.

Evenness (n.) The state of being ven, level, or disturbed; smoothness; horizontal position; uniformity; impartiality; calmness; equanimity; appropriate place or level; as, evenness of surface, of a fluid at rest, of motion, of dealings, of temper, of condition.

Evensong (n.) A song for the evening; the evening service or form of worship (in the Church of England including vespers and compline); also, the time of evensong.

Event (n.) That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.

Event (n.) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.

Event (n.) The consequence of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation, or series of operations, terminates.

Event (v. t.) To break forth.

Eventerate (v. t.) To rip open; todisembowel.

Eventful (a.) Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.

Evermore (adv.) During eternity; always; forever; for an indefinite period; at all times; -- often used substantively with for.

Everse (v. t.) To overthrow or subvert.

Eversion (n.) The act of eversing; destruction.

Eversion (n.) The state of being turned back or outward; as, eversion of eyelids; ectropium.

Eversive (a.) Tending to evert or overthrow; subversive; with of.

Everted (imp. & p. p.) of Evert

Everting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evert

Evert (v. t.) To overthrow; to subvert.

Evert (v. t.) To turn outwards, or inside out, as an intestine.

Every (a. & a. pron.) All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite bumber.

Every (a. & a. pron.) Every one. Cf.

Everybody (n.) Every person.

Everyday (a.) Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes.

Everyone (n.) Everybody; -- commonly separated, every one.

Everything (n.) Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things.

Everywhen (adv.) At any or all times; every instant.

Everywhere (adv.) In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.

Everywhereness (n.) Ubiquity; omnipresence.

Evesdrop (v. i.) See Eavesdrop.

Evesdropper (n.) See Eavesdropper.

Evestigate (v. t.) To investigate.

Evet (n.) The common newt or eft. In America often applied to several species of aquatic salamanders.

Evibrate (v. t. & i.) To vibrate.

Evicted (imp. & p. p.) of Evict

Evicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evict

Evict (v. t.) To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.

Evict (v. t.) To evince; to prove.

Eviction (n.) The act or process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster.

Eviction (n.) Conclusive evidence; proof.

Evidence (n.) That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement.

Evidence (n.) One who bears witness.

Evidence (n.) That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it.

Evidenced (imp. & p. p.) of Evidence

Evidencing (p, pr. & vb. n.) of Evidence

Evidence (v. t.) To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender.

Evidencer (n.) One whi gives evidence.

Evident (a.) Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident.

Evidentiary (a.) Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential.

Evidently (adv.) In an evident manner; clearly; plainly.

Evidentness (n.) State of being evident.

Evigilation (n.) A waking up or awakening.

Evil (a.) Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.

Evil (n.) Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.

Evil (n.) Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.

Evil (n.) malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.

Evilly (adv.) In an evil manner; not well; ill.

Evilness (n.) The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.

Evinced (imp. & p. p.) of Evince

Evincing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evince

Evince (v. t.) To conquer; to subdue.

Evince (v. t.) To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to light; to evidence.

Evincement (n.) The act of evincing or proving, or the state of being evinced.

Evincible (a.) Capable of being proved or clearly brought to light; demonstrable.

Evincive (a.) Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.

Evirate (v. t.) To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood.

Eviration (n.) Castration.

Eviscerated (imp. & p. p.) of Eviscerate

Eviscerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eviscerate

Eviscerate (v. t.) To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.

Evisceration (a.) A disemboweling.

Evitable (a.) Avoidable.

Evitate (v. t.) To shun; to avoid.

Evitation (n.) A shunning; avoidance.

Evite (v. t.) To shun.

Eviternal (a.) Eternal; everlasting.

Eviternity (n.) Eternity.

Evocate (v. t.) To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke.

Evocation (n.) The act of calling out or forth.

Evocative (a.) Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing.

Evocator (n.) One who calls forth.

Evoked (imp. & p. p.) of Evoke

Evoking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evoke

Evoke (v. t.) To call out; to summon forth.

Evoke (v. t.) To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another.

Evolatic (a.) Alt. of Evolatical

Evolatical (a.) Apt to fly away.

Evolation (n.) A flying out or up.

Evolute (n.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.

Evolutility (n.) The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure.

Evolution (n.) The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.

Evolution (n.) A series of things unrolled or unfolded.

Evolution (n.) The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.

Evolution (n.) The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.

Evolution (n.) A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver.

Evolution (n.) A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.

Evolution (n.) That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis.

Evolution (n.) That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The pocess is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and laws of the process are variously explained by different philosophrs.

Ivan Ivanovitch () An ideal personification of the typical Russian or of the Russian people; -- used as "John Bull" is used for the typical Englishman.

I've () Colloquial contraction of I have.

Ivied (a.) Overgrown with ivy.

Ivoride (n.) A composition resembling ivory in appearance and used as a substitute for it.

Ivories (pl. ) of Ivory

Ivory (n.) The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.

Ivory (n.) The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.

Ivory (n.) Any carving executed in ivory.

Ivory (n.) Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.

Ivory-bill (n.) A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States.

Ivorytype (n.) A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype.

Ivies (pl. ) of Ivy

Ivy (n.) A plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers.

Ivy-mantled (a.) Covered with ivy.

Ova (n. pl.) See Ovum.

Oval (a.) Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.

Oval (a.) Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.

Oval (a.) Broadly elliptical.

Oval (n.) A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.

Ovalbumin (n.) Alt. of Ovalbumen

Ovalbumen (n.) The albumin from white of eggs; egg albumin; -- in distinction from serum albumin. See Albumin.

Ovaliform (a.) Having the form of an egg; having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.

Ovally (adv.) In an oval form.

Ovant (a.) Exultant.

Ovarian (a.) Alt. of Ovarial

Ovarial (a.) Of or pertaining to an ovary.

Ovariole (n.) One of the tubes of which the ovaries of most insects are composed.

Ovariotomist (n.) One who performs, or is skilled in, ovariotomy.

Ovariotomy (n.) The operation of removing one or both of the ovaries; oophorectomy.

Ovarious (a.) Consisting of eggs; as, ovarious food.

Ovaritis (n.) Inflammation of the ovaries.

Ovaria (pl. ) of Ovarium

Ovariums (pl. ) of Ovarium

Ovarium (n.) An ovary. See Ovary.

Ovaries (pl. ) of Ovary

Ovary (n.) That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.

Ovary (n.) The essential female reproductive organ in which the ova are produced. See Illust. of Discophora.

Ovate (a.) Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.

Ovate (a.) Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal sectior of an egg, with the broader end basal.

Ovate-acuminate (a.) Having an ovate form, but narrowed at the end into a slender point.

Ovate-cylindraceous (a.) Having a form intermediate between ovate and cylindraceous.

Ovated (a.) Ovate.

Ovate-lanceolate (a.) Having a form intermediate between ovate and lanceolate.

Ovate-oblong (a.) Oblong. with one end narrower than the other; ovato-oblong.

Ovate-rotundate (a.) Having a form intermediate between that of an egg and a sphere; roundly ovate.

Ovate-subulate (a.) Having an ovate form, but with a subulate tip or extremity.

Ovation (n.) A lesser kind of triumph allowed to a commander for an easy, bloodless victory, or a victory over slaves.

Ovation (n.) Hence: An expression of popular homage; the tribute of the multitude to a public favorite.

Ovato-acuminate (a.) Same as Ovate-acuminate.

Ovato-cylindraceous (a.) Same as Ovate-cylindraceous.

Ovato-oblong (a.) Same as Ovate-oblong.

Ovato-rotundate (a.) Same as Ovate-rotundate.

Oven (n.) A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting.

Ovenbird (n.) Any species of the genus Furnarius, allied to the creepers. They inhabit South America and the West Indies, and construct curious oven-shaped nests.

Ovenbird (n.) In the United States, Seiurus aurocapillus; -- called also golden-crowned thrush.

Ovenbird (n.) In England, sometimes applied to the willow warbler, and to the long-tailed titmouse.

Over (prep.) Above, or higher than, in place or position, with the idea of covering; -- opposed to under; as, clouds are over our heads; the smoke rises over the city.

Over (prep.) Across; from side to side of; -- implying a passing or moving, either above the substance or thing, or on the surface of it; as, a dog leaps over a stream or a table.

Over (prep.) Upon the surface of, or the whole surface of; hither and thither upon; throughout the whole extent of; as, to wander over the earth; to walk over a field, or over a city.

Over (prep.) Above; -- implying superiority in excellence, dignity, condition, or value; as, the advantages which the Christian world has over the heathen.

Over (prep.) Across or during the time of; from beginning to end of; as, to keep anything over night; to keep corn over winter.

Over (prep.) Above the perpendicular height or length of, with an idea of measurement; as, the water, or the depth of water, was over his head, over his shoes.

Over (prep.) Beyond; in excess of; in addition to; more than; as, it cost over five dollars.

Over (prep.) Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding; as, he triumphed over difficulties; the bill was passed over the veto.

Over (adv.) From one side to another; from side to side; across; crosswise; as, a board, or a tree, a foot over, i. e., a foot in diameter.

Over (adv.) From one person or place to another regarded as on the opposite side of a space or barrier; -- used with verbs of motion; as, to sail over to England; to hand over the money; to go over to the enemy.

Over (adv.) Also, with verbs of being: At, or on, the opposite side; as, the boat is over.

Over (adv.) From beginning to end; throughout the course, extent, or expanse of anything; as, to look over accounts, or a stock of goods; a dress covered over with jewels.

Over (adv.) From inside to outside, above or across the brim.

Over (adv.) Beyond a limit; hence, in excessive degree or quantity; superfluously; with repetition; as, to do the whole work over.

Over (adv.) In a manner to bring the under side to or towards the top; as, to turn (one's self) over; to roll a stone over; to turn over the leaves; to tip over a cart.

Over (adv.) At an end; beyond the limit of continuance; completed; finished.

Over (n.) A certain number of balls (usually four) delivered successively from behind one wicket, after which the ball is bowled from behind the other wicket as many times, the fielders changing places.

Overabound (v. i.) To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant.

Overact (v. t.) To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part.

Overact (v. t.) To act upon, or influence, unduly.

Overact (v. i.) To act more than is necessary; to go to excess in action.

Overgrowth (n.) Excessive growth.

Overhall (v. t.) See Overhaul.

Overhale (v. t.) See Overhaul.

Overhand (n.) The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.

Overhand (a.) Over and over; -- applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both.

Overhand (a.) Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder.

Overhand (adv.) In an overhand manner or style.

Overhandle (v. t.) To handle, or use, too much; to mention too often.

Overhung (imp. & p. p.) of Overhang

Overhanging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overhang

Overhang (v. t.) To impend or hang over.

Overhang (v. t.) To hang over; to jut or project over.

Overhang (v. i.) To jut over.

Overhang (n.) In a general sense, that which just out or projects; a projection; also, the measure of the projection; as, the overhang is five feet.

Overhang (n.) Specifically: The projection of an upper part (as a roof, an upper story, or other part) of a building beyond the lower part; as, the overhang of a roof, of the eaves, etc.

Overhang (n.) The portion of the bow or stem of a vessel that projects over the water beyond the water line.

Overhang (n.) The projection of a part beyond another part that is directly below it, or beyond a part by which it is supported; as, the overhang of a shaft; i. e., its projection beyond its bearing.

Overhappy (a.) Exceedingly happy.

Overharden (v. t.) To harden too much; to make too hard.

Overhardy (a.) Too hardy; overbold.

Overhaste (n.) Too great haste.

Overhasty (a.) Too hasty; precipitate; rash.

Overhauled (imp. & p. p.) of Overhaul

Overhauling () of Overhaul

Overhaul (v. t.) To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs.

Overhaul (v. t.) To gain upon in a chase; to overtake.

Overhaul (n.) Alt. of Overhauling

Overhauling (n.) A strict examination with a view to correction or repairs.

Overhead (adv.) Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith.

Overheard (imp. & p. p.) of Overhear

Overhearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overhear

Overhear (v. t.) To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.

Overhear (v. t.) To hear again.

Overheat (v. t.) To heat to excess; to superheat.

Overheavy (a.) Excessively heavy.

Overhele (v. t.) To hele or cover over.

Overhent (v. t.) To overtake.

Overhigh (a.) Too high.

Overhighly (adv.) Too highly; too greatly.

Overhipped (imp. & p. p.) of Overhip

Overhipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overhip

Overhip (v. t.) To pass over by, or as by a hop; to skip over; hence, to overpass.

Overhold (v. t.) To hold or value too highly; to estimate at too dear a rate.

Overhung (a.) Covered over; ornamented with hangings.

Overhung (a.) Suspended from above or from the top.

Overinfluence (v. t.) To influence in an excessive degree; to have undue influence over.

Overinform (v. t.) To inform, fill, or animate, excessively.

Overissue (n.) An excessive issue; an issue, as of notes or bonds, exceeding the limit of capital, credit, or authority.

Overissue (v. t.) To issue in excess.

Overjealous (a.) Excessively jealous; too jealous.

Overjoy (v. t.) To make excessively joyful; to gratify extremely.

Overjoy (n.) Excessive joy; transport.

Overjump (v. t.) To jump over; hence, to omit; to ignore.

Overking (n.) A king who has sovereignty over inferior kings or ruling princes.

Overknowing (a.) Too knowing or too cunning.

Overlabored (imp. & p. p.) of Overlabor

Overlaboring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overlabor

Overlabor (v. t.) To cause to labor excessively; to overwork.

Overlabor (v. t.) To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly.

Overladed (imp.) of Overlade

Overladen (p. p.) of Overlade

Overlading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overlade

Overlade (v. t.) To load with too great a cargo; to overburden; to overload.

Overland (a.) Being, or accomplished, over the land, instead of by sea; as, an overland journey.

Overland (adv.) By, upon, or across, land.

Overlander (n.) One who travels over lands or countries; one who travels overland.

Overlanguaged (a.) Employing too many words; diffuse.

Overlap (v. t. & i.) To lap over; to lap.

Overlap (n.) The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof.

Overlap (n.) An extension of geological beds above and beyond others, as in a conformable series of beds, when the upper beds extend over a wider space than the lower, either in one or in all directions.

Overlarge (a.) Too large; too great.

Overlargeness (n.) Excess of size or bulk.

Overlash (v. i.) To drive on rashly; to go to excess; hence, to exaggerate; to boast.

Overlashing (n.) Excess; exaggeration.

Overlate (a.) Too late; exceedingly late.

Overlave (v. t.) To lave or bathe over.

Overlavish (a.) Lavish to excess.

Overlaid (imp. & p. p.) of Overlay

Overlaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overlay

Overlay (v. t.) To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.

Overlay (v. t.) To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon.

Overlay (v. t.) To put an overlay on.

Overlay (n.) A covering.

Overlay (n.) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.

Overlayer (n.) One who overlays; that with which anything is overlaid.

Overlaying (n.) A superficial covering; a coating.

Overlead (v. t.) To domineer over; to affront; to treat with indignity.

Overload (n.) An excessive load; the excess beyond a proper load.

Overlong (a. & adv.) Too long.

Overlooked (imp. & p. p.) of Overlook

Overlooking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overlook

Overlook (v. t.) To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill.

Overlook (v. t.) Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter.

Overlook (v. t.) To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.

Overlook (v. t.) To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.

Overlook (v. t.) To look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking; hence, to refrain from bestowing notice or attention upon; to neglect; to pass over without censure or punishment; to excuse.

Overlooker (n.) One who overlooks.

Overloop (n.) See Orlop.

Overlord (n.) One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord; a master.

Overlordship (n.) Lordship or supremacy of a person or a people over others.

Overruler (n.) One who, or that which, controls, governs, or determines.

Overran (imp.) of Overrun

Overrun (p. p.) of Overrun

Overrunning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overrun

Overrun (v. t.) To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass.

Overrun (v. t.) To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running.

Overrun (v. t.) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line overruns another in length.

Overrun (v. t.) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.

Overrun (v. t.) To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before.

Overrun (v. t.) To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page.

Overrun (v. i.) To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess.

Overrun (v. i.) To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns.

Overrunner (n.) One that overruns.

Oversaturate (v. t.) To saturate to excess.

Oversay (v. t.) To say over; to repeat.

Overscented (a.) Scented excessively.

Overscented (a.) Covered or concealed by a different odor.

Overscrupulosity (n.) Overscrupulousness.

Overscrupulous (a.) Scrupulous to excess.

Overscrupulousness (n.) The quality or state of being overscrupulous; excess of scrupulousness.

Oversea (a.) Beyond the sea; foreign.

Oversea (adv.) Alt. of Overseas

Overseas (adv.) Over the sea; abroad.

Oversearch (v. t.) To search all over.

Overseason (v. t.) To season too highly.

Oversaw (imp.) of Oversee

Overseen (p. p.) of Oversee

Overseeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oversee

Oversee (v. t.) To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.

Oversee (v. t.) To omit or neglect seeing.

Oversee (v. i.) To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived.

Overseer (n.) One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.

Overseership (n.) The office of an overseer.

Oversold (imp. & p. p.) of Oversell

Overselling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oversell

Oversell (v. t.) To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in selling price.

Oversell (v. t.) To sell beyond means of delivery.

Overset (imp. & p. p.) of Overset

Oversetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overset

Overset (v. t.) To turn or tip (anything) over from an upright, or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building.

Overset (v. t.) To cause to fall, or to tail; to subvert; to overthrow; as, to overset a government or a plot.

Overset (v. t.) To fill too full.

Overset (v. i.) To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset.

Overset (n.) An upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a carriage.

Overset (n.) An excess; superfluity.

Overshade (v. t.) To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow.

Overshadowed (imp. & p. p.) of Overshadow

Overshadowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overshadow

Overshadow (v. t.) To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure.

Overshadow (v. t.) Fig.: To cover with a superior influence.

Overshadower (n.) One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything.

Overshadowy (a.) Overshadowing.

Overshake (v. t.) To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse.

Overshine (v. t.) To shine over or upon; to illumine.

Overshine (v. t.) To excel in shining; to outshine.

Overshoe (n.) A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galoche.

Overshot (imp. & p. p.) of Overshoot

Overshooting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overshoot

Overshoot (v. t.) To shoot over or beyond.

Overshoot (v. t.) To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond.

Overshoot (v. t.) To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth.

Overshoot (v. i.) To fly beyond the mark.

Overshot (a.) From Overshoot, v. t.

Oversight (n.) Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.

Oversight (n.) An overlooking; an omission; an error.

Oversight (n.) Escape from an overlooked peril.

Oversize (v. t.) To surpass in size.

Oversize (v. t.) To cover with viscid matter.

Overskip (v. t.) To skip or leap over; to treat with indifference.

Overskirt (n.) An upper skirt, shorter than the dress, and usually draped.

Overslaugh (n.) A bar in a river; as, the overslaugh in the Hudson River.

Overslaugh (v. t.) To hinder or stop, as by an overslaugh or an impediment; as, to overslaugh a bill in a legislative body; to overslaugh a military officer, that is, to hinder his promotion or employment.

Overthwart (v. t.) To cross; to oppose.

Overthwartness (n.) The state of being overthwart; perverseness.

Overtilt (v. t.) To tilt over; to overturn.

Overtime (n.) Time beyond, or in excess of, a limit; esp., extra working time.

Overtire (v. t.) To tire to excess; to exhaust.

Overtire (v. t.) To become too tired.

Overtitle (v. t.) To give too high a title to.

Overtly (adv.) Publicly; openly.

Overtoil (v. t.) To overwork.

Overtoil (v. t.) To weary excessively; to exhaust.

Overtone (n.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone.

Overtopped (imp. & p. p.) of Overtop

Overtopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overtop

Overtop (v. t.) To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above.

Overtop (v. t.) To go beyond; to transcend; to transgress.

Overtop (v. t.) To make of less importance, or throw into the background, by superior excellence; to dwarf; to obscure.

Overtower (v. t.) To tower over or above.

Overtower (v. i.) To soar too high.

Overtrade (v. i.) To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.

Overtrading (n.) The act or practice of buying goods beyond the means of payment; a glutting of the market.

Overtread (v. t.) To tread over or upon.

Overtrip (v. t.) To trip over nimbly.

Overtroubled (a.) Excessively troubled.

Overtrow (v. i.) To be too trustful or confident; to trust too much.

Overtrust (n.) Excessive confidence.

Overtrust (v. t. & i.) To trust too much.

Overture () An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.

Overture () Disclosure; discovery; revelation.

Overture () A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for consideration, acceptance, or rejection.

Overture () A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent piece; -- called in the latter case a concert overture.

Overture (v. t.) To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.

Overturned (imp. & p. p.) of Overturn

Overturning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overturn

Overturn (v. t.) To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.

Overturn (v. t.) To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.

Overturn (v. t.) To overpower; to conquer.

Overturn (n.) The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties.

Overturnable (a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, overturned or subverted.

Overturner (n.) One who overturns.

Overvail (v. t.) See Overveil.

Overvaluation (n.) Excessive valuation; overestimate.

Overvalued (imp. & p. p.) of Overvalue

Overvaluing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overvalue

Overvalue (v. t.) To value excessively; to rate at too high a price.

Overvalue (v. t.) To exceed in value.

Overveil (v. t.) To veil or cover.

Overview (n.) An inspection or overlooking.

Overvote (v. t.) To outvote; to outnumber in votes given.

Overwalk (v. t.) To walk over or upon.

Overwar (v. t.) To defeat.

Overwary (a.) Too wary; too cautious.

Overwash (v. t.) To overflow.

Overwasted (a.) Wasted or worn out; /onsumed; spent

Overwatch (v. t.) To watch too much.

Overwatch (v. t.) To weary or exhaust by watching.

Overwax (v. i.) To wax or grow too rapindly or too much.

Overweak (a.) Too weak; too feeble.

Overwear (v. t.) To wear too much; to wear out.

Overweary (v. t.) To weary too much; to tire out.

Overweather (v. t.) To expose too long to the influence of the weather.

Overween (v. t.) To think too highly or arrogantly; to regard one's own thinking or conclusions too highly; hence, to egotistic, arrogant, or rash, in opinion; to think conceitedly; to presume.

Overweener (n.) One who overweens.

Overweening (a.) Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.

Overweening (n.) Conceit; arrogance.

Overweigh (v. t.) To exceed in weight; to overbalance; to weigh down.

Overweight (n.) Weight over and above what is required by law or custom.

Overweight (n.) Superabundance of weight; preponderance.

Overweight (a.) Overweighing; excessive.

Overwell (v. t.) To overflow.

Overwet (n.) Excessive wetness.

Overwhelmed (imp. & p. p.) of Overwhelm

Overwhelming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overwhelm

Overwhelm (v. t.) To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly.

Overwhelm (v. t.) To project or impend over threateningly.

Overwhelm (v. t.) To cause to surround, to cover.

Overwhelm (n.) The act of overwhelming.

Overwhelming (a.) Overpowering; irresistible.

Overwind (v. t.) To wind too tightly, as a spring, or too far, as a hoisting rope on a drum.

Overwing (v. t.) To outflank.

Overwise (a.) Too wise; affectedly wise.

Overwit (v. t.) To outwit.

Overword (v. t.) To say in too many words; to express verbosely.

Overworked (imp. & p. p.) of Overwork

Overwrought () of Overwork

Overworking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overwork

Overwork (v. t.) To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.

Overwork (v. t.) To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor.

Overwork (v. t.) To decorate all over.

Overwork (v. t.) To work too much, or beyond one's strength.

Overwork (n.) Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.

Overworn (v. t.) Worn out or subdued by toil; worn out so as to be trite.

Overwrest (v. t.) To wrest or force from the natural or proper position.

Overzeal (n.) Excess of zeal.

Overzealous (a.) Too zealous.

Ovicapsule (n.) The outer layer of a Graafian follicle.

Ovicapsule (n.) Same as Ootheca.

Ovicell (n.) One of the dilatations of the body wall of Bryozoa in which the ova sometimes undegro the first stages of their development. See Illust. of Chilostoma.

Ovioular (a.) Of or pertaining to an egg.

Ovicyst (n.) The pouch in which incubation takes place in some Tunicata.

Ovidian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Latin poet Ovid; resembling the style of Ovid.

Oviducal (a.) Of or pertaining to oviducts; as, oviducal glands.

Oviduct (n.) A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.

Oviferous (a.) Egg-bearing; -- applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched.

Oviform (a.) Having the form or figure of an egg; egg-shaped; as, an oviform leaf.

Ovigerons (a.) Bearing eggs; oviferous.

Ovile (a.) See Ovine.

Ovine (a.) Of or pertaining to sheep; consisting of sheep.

Ovipara (n. pl.) An artifical division of vertebrates, including those that lay eggs; -- opposed to Vivipara.

Oviparity (n.) Generation by means of ova. See Generation.

Oviparous (a.) Producing young from rggs; as, an oviparous animal, in which the egg is generally separated from the animal, and hatched after exclusion; -- opposed to viviparous.

Oviposited (imp. & p. p.) of Oviposit

Ovipositing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oviposit

Oviposit (v. i.) To lay or deposit eggs; -- said esp. of insects.

Oviposit (v. t.) To deposit or lay (an egg).

Ovipositing (n.) Alt. of Oviposition

Oviposition (n.) The depositing of eggs, esp. by insects.

Ovipositor (n.) The organ with which many insects and some other animals deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long ovipositor fitted to pierce the eggs or larvae of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same.

Ovisac (n.) A Graafian follicle; any sac containing an ovum or ova.

Ovisac (n.) The inner layer of the fibrous wall of a Graafian follicle.

Ovoid (a.) Alt. of Ovoidal

Ovoid (n.) A solid resembling an egg in shape.

Ovolo (n.) A round, convex molding. See Illust. of Column.

Ovology (n.) That branch of natural history which treats of the origin and functions of eggs.

Ovoplasma (n.) Yolk; egg yolk.

Ovotesttis (n.) An organ which produces both ova and spermatozoids; an hermaphrodite gland.

Ovoviviparous (a.) Oviparous, but hatching the egg while it is within the body, as some fishes and reptiles.

Ovular (a.) Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.

Ovulary (a.) Pertaining to ovules.

Ovulate (a.) Containing an ovule or ovules.

Ovulation (n.) The formation of ova or eggs in the ovary, and the discharge of the same. In the mammalian female the discharge occurs during menstruation.

Ovule (n.) The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen.

Ovule (n.) An ovum.

Ovuliferous (a.) Producing ovules.

Ovulist (n.) A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist.

Ovulite (n.) A fossil egg.

Ovula (pl. ) of Ovulum

Ovulum (n.) An ovule.

Ova (pl. ) of Ovum

Ovums (pl. ) of Ovum

Ovum (n.) A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle.

Ovum (n.) One of the series of egg-shaped ornaments into which the ovolo is often carved.

Uva (n.) A small pulpy or juicy fruit containing several seeds and having a thin skin, as a grape.

Uvate (n.) A conserve made of grapes.

Uva-ursi (n.) The bearberry.

Uvea (n.) The posterior pigmented layer of the iris; -- sometimes applied to the whole iris together with the choroid coat.

Uvula (n.) The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.

Uvular (a.) Of or pertaining to a uvula.

Uvulatome (n.) An instrument for removing the uvula.

Uvulatomy (n.) The operation of removing the uvula.

Yvel (a. & adv.) Evil; ill.

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